Elon Musk‘s ex Ashley St. Clair spoke about her decision to reject a $40 million non-disclosure agreement after the influencer gave birth last year to Musk’s 13th child. By turning down the alleged payday, St. Clair was able to sit for an interview in “Musk,” a new documentary from Alex Gibney that seeks to make sense of the controversial billionaire who has outsized influence on the world in which we live.
St. Clair participated in the doc to “set the example for my kids that we should never take being materially comfortable that we’re speaking the truth,” she said at a Venice Film Festival press conference on Tuesday. St. Clair gained prominence as a right-wing commentator who advocated for conservative and anti-trans politics. She is now expressing her regret for platforming those beliefs, which she chalked up to her youth and confidants at the time.
“I got involved with Republican politics when I was 18 after I met Charlie Kirk, and there was an air of ignorance,” said St. Clair, who is now 28. “But that ignorance does not excuse any role in that. I hope the risk that I’m taking now in speaking out and trying to fight back at least helps a little bit.”
Gibney, an Oscar-winning documentarian, has investigated corrupt corporations (“Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room”), sexual abuse coverups in the Catholic Church (“Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God”), Scientology (“Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Disbelief”) and alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election (“Agents of Chaos”). Gibney began working on a film about the tech titan and world’s richest man, with an estimated net worth of $900 billion through ventures including SpaceX and Tesla, back in 2023.
